Category: News Article

Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool that Showed Bias Against Women

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Hiring, Training Data

Author: Jeffrey Dastin; Publisher: Reuters; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how being able to make the hiring process easier or less time-consuming is a goal for most major big companies. Some companies, like…
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10 Things Judges Should Know About AI

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Duke University, Judicial System, Racial Injustice

Author: Jeff Ward; Publisher: Judicature; Publication Year: 2019. The following article features Professor Jeff Ward of Duke University who discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in courtrooms. Current AI tools are effective in…
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Privacy Lost In The Age Of ADS-B

ADB-S, ADB-S Data, Flight Data, Freedom of Information Act, Tracking

Author: Jeff Simon; Publisher: Plane & Pilot; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how airplanes are being tracked every second of the day. If you decide to take a flight from RDU to ATL,…
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The Ethics of Health and Ethnic Identity Through an Asian American Lens

Asian Communities, Individualization, Racial Disparities

Author: Jasmine Jaing; Publisher: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; Publication Year: 2022. The following article emphasizes the importance of not grouping Asian communities into one monolith. Especially in the health care field, Asian communities tend…
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‘Dark Arts’ and ‘Codebreaker’: The Origins of the Houston Astros Cheating Scheme

Houston Astros, Performance, Profitability

Author: Jared Diamond; Publisher: The Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how professional sports teams have started using data analytics more and more over the last decade or so in order…
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AI can be Sexist and Racist — It’s Time to Make it Fair

Accuracy, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Bias, Ethnic Bias, Gender Bias, Training Data

Author: James Zou, Londa Schiebinger; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses different sources of bias, how to recognize the bias, and what to do about it. They bring up that a major…
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Getty Images Bans AI-Generated Content Over Fears of Legal Challenges

AI-Generated Images, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, Data Usage, Getty Images, Training Data

Author: James Vincent; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Getty Images has banned artificial intelligence (AI)-generated images from its website, citing concerns over the legality of such images. The company…
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Amazon Shows off Alexa Feature that Mimics the Voices of Your Dead Relatives

Alexa, Amazon, Deepfake

Author: James Vincent; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon has developed a feature where Alexa can mimic the voice of a dead relative. While the feature has not been…
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What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?

Algorithms, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Bias Mitigation, Explainability, Fairness, Human Bias, Racial Bias, Transparency

Author: James Manyika, Jake Silberg, Brittany Presten Publisher: Harvard Business Review Publication Year: 2019 Summary: The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify and reduce the impact of human biases. But it…
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